How Do You Sleep? · John Lennon

216 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 6:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 65-79 and 105-119, and 2 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
HOW DO YOU SLEEP? · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 40, 52, 80, 92, 120 and 3 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 10 sections: 168 keep time, 9 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-216.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How Do You Sleep??

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is How Do You Sleep? hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in How Do You Sleep??

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 40, 52, 80, 92, 120 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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